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Zerowaste Frankfurt

Der Zero Waste Guide für Frankurt: Abfall reduzieren heißt Klima schützen. Kampagne: Gemeinsam mit allen Menschen in Frankfurt wollen wir den Restmüll pro Kopf und Jahr von derzeit 205 kg auf 120 kg reduzieren. Was ist Zero Waste? Frankfurt möchte, als eine der ersten Städte Deutschlands, Zero Waste City werden. Was genau bedeutet das? Wirklich gar kein Abfall mehr? Zero Waste meint „keine Verschwendung“. Und damit weniger Müll. Genau dies ist das Ziel unserer groß angelegten Dafür gibt es viele interessante und motivierende Aktionen und Angebote. Wir möchten dich zum Mitmachen ermutigen. Denn: Sich gemeinsam gegen Verschwendung und für den Erhalt von Rohstoffen einzusetzen, macht Spaß und ist ganz einfach im Alltag möglich. Privat genauso wie im Job. Zero Waste Initiativen & Projekte in und um Frankfurt https://zerowaste-ffm.de/initiativenprojekte/ © Umweltamt der Stadt Frankfurt am Main 2026

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Programme nearbyCommunity Brasilia

Host the travelling SESI Lab near you

Host the travelling SESI Lab near you SESI Lab Itinerante packs about ten interactive apparatuses plus a workshop area so the museum experience can travel across the Distrito Federal and other Brazilian states. Schools and local partners can request the kit and add teacher formation shaped to local needs, and everything the museum builds is mirrored in a free digital acervo. What you can do - Explore the travelling exhibits and oficinas in the acervo Itinerante - Ask your school network, municipal culture desk, or SESI regional office how to host a stop - Rebuild the workshop recipes (light badges, motor cars, electric insects, conductive dough) in a classroom, using the published tutorials - Run the free digital exhibition BioOCAnomia Amazônica with students: it puts bioeconomy, biodiversity conservation, and reducing climate change impacts at the centre of Amazonian development How it works The itinerant set carries a slice of the long-duration exhibition and of the educational action programme. Hosts negotiate dates and training with SESI Lab, so there is no permanent street pin because the venue moves. The digital acervo stays open to anyone with a connection, at no cost. Why it matters Inquiry science should not stop at the Rodoviária. A travelling lab plus an open archive lets a distant classroom touch the same phenomena, and reuse the same lesson, as the Esplanada galleries.

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Programme nearbyCommunity London

Run a freshwater literacy workshop in your neighbourhood

Host a river evening for your block FreshWater Watch materials help any community group run a freshwater evening: where your tap water comes from, what lives in the brook, and how to sample safely. What you can do - Download workshop guides from FreshWater Watch - Invite a local angler, birder, or councillor to share stories of the catchment - End with a pledge: adopt a storm drain, plant a buffer strip, or schedule monthly tests How it works You need a hall or pub back room, a projector, and one trained sampler. Neighbours leave with a map of their sub-catchment and a date for the first test day. Why it matters Freshwater literacy turns abstract SDG talk into names of streams people can walk to after dinner.

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Programme nearbyCommunity Amsterdam

Free Introduction to Rewilding online course

Learn rewilding practice from 20+ countries Rewilding Europe and the Open University host Introduction to Rewilding, a free online course with eight modules, badges, and a completion certificate, no prior training required. What you can do - Enrol via the online rewilding course page - Work through modules on land, river, and sea rewilding with real European case studies - Draft your own personal rewilding action plan as the final module suggests How it works - Flexible self-paced study with interactive content and practitioner interviews - Designed for curious residents, students, land stewards, and early-career conservationists Why it matters Skills spread faster than slogans, a free course lowers the barrier for anyone ready to help nature lead locally.

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Programme nearbyCommunity Bonn

Spend a youth year repairing heritage

Spend a youth year repairing heritage The Jugendbauhütten offer ages 16 to 26 a full Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr (or BFD) in monument care. You learn timber, metal, plaster, stone, or garden skills on real buildings, with seminars that link craft to European heritage. The programme is a DSD project carried by the Internationalen Jugendgemeinschaftsdienste (ijgd). Mobile Denkmalrettercamp weeks (for example the June 2026 camp at Kramers Gut in Helmstedt) show the same spirit: short, practical teams that repair endangered fabric. Apply for the year-round hut pathway, not a one-off camp that has already closed. What you can do - Read the Jugendbauhütten overview - Apply via the Bewerben form for the next FSJ year (do not paste personal data into third-party tools) - Prefer a hut near you, or the Internationale Jugendbauhütte Berlin for urban craft and a Schöneweide workshop campus - Ask about mobile teams if you want city-wide repair rather than a single site How it works Service usually runs about twelve months from September. You need to have finished full-time school duty and be ready for hands-on work. Placement mixes workshop days, site work, and seminar weeks. Why it matters Young builders keep endangered houses standing and often stay in craft or conservation careers. Mutual aid across generations turns heritage into a living workshop.

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Programme nearbyCommunity Brasilia

Learn computer repair from discarded electronics

Learn computer repair from discarded electronics Reciclotech is not only a drop-off scheme. At the Programando o Futuro headquarters in Gama, donated e-waste is the teaching material for free, fully practical courses in basic IT, computer maintenance, and robotics. This is vocational training in a workshop, not a same-day museum oficina. What you can do - Read how the courses run on SECTI Reciclotech and Programando o Futuro: Reciclotech - Enrol through programandoofuturo.org.br/cursos or in person at QI 06 Lotes 20/80, Setor de Indústria, Gama Leste - Bring copies of ID and proof of address (a guardian's documents if you are under 18) - Arrive as a young person or adult: the official public is jovens e adultos, from first job through requalification How it works Programando o Futuro executes Reciclotech under Termo de Colaboração nº 05/2023 with SECTI-DF and FAP-DF (signed 29 December 2023). Classes are 100% practical and in person at the Gama industrial-sector site. The programme is in its third edition. Do not treat a single news vacancy round as the current intake: check the executor's course page for open groups. Why it matters A discarded laptop that teaches someone to rebuild the next one is worth more than a sermon about waste. Skills stay in the neighbourhood; machines stay in use.

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Programme nearbyCommunity Brasilia

Run a school e-waste gincana

Run a school e-waste gincana Reciclotech takes collection into schools and streets: gincanas for electronic drop-off, community caravanas, and talks on environmental education. A class that competes to fill a PEV is practising reverse logistics, not sitting through a slide deck. What you can do - Ask your school or regional administration to host a Reciclotech gincana; the pattern is described on Programando o Futuro: Reciclotech - Pair the contest with a visit to a nearby PEV so students know where the box lives after the event - Invite a Reciclotech talk or caravana into a community space, then keep a standing drop-off rather than a one-day pile - Teachers: use the gincana as a replicable template (teams, weighed haul, repair story), not as a dated fixture on this page How it works The executor lists palestras, caravanas in communities, and gincanas for electronics drop-off as standing education actions. No public calendar of the next school contest was on the pages, so treat this as a pattern to request, not as a ticketed date. Sema-DF coverage of the Abree agreement also mentions school gincanas alongside drive-thru days. Why it matters A school that weighs its leftover phones together learns that waste is a team sport. The next PEV in that RA is easier to keep full.

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Programme nearbyCommunity Frankfurt

Ride Schulradeln with your school community in Frankfurt

Ride Schulradeln with your school community in Frankfurt Schulradeln layers a school contest inside the municipal STADTRADELN window in Frankfurt. Pupils, parents, and teachers pedal together while kilometres also lift the wider Kommune score. What you can do - Check whether your Land runs Schulradeln on stadtradeln.de/schulradeln - Register your school team during the same 21 days as the local Kommune campaign - Join creative side contests where your Land offers them How it works Started in 2015 by ivm and Klima-Bündnis (Frankfurt Rhein-Main / Besser zur Schule), Schulradeln mirrors municipal rules: everyday rides count, teams need at least two people, and kilometres logged for the school also count toward the town total. - 2026 participating Länder: Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Niedersachsen, Saarland, Thüringen Why it matters School gates become starting lines for a habit that lasts beyond the three-week sprint, and whole families discover routes they can keep riding.

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Jugendbauhütte Berlin at Schöneweide

Jugendbauhütte Berlin at Schöneweide The Internationale Jugendbauhütte Berlin places volunteers in restoration firms, archives, and a mobile team across the city. Its long-term home is taking shape at the former Bahnbetriebswerk in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, with wood and metal workshops beside the Lokschuppen together with Dampflokfreunde Berlin e.V. What you can do - Read the Jugendbauhütte Berlin page - Apply via Bewerben and select Berlin - Ask about the mobile team if you want citywide repair rather than a single workshop - Follow Bauhof news for the Schöneweide craft campus as it opens When & where - Recurring: FSJ / BFD year, typically from September - Orientation pin: Bahnbetriebswerk Berlin-Schöneweide / Oberschöneweide craft campus - Approximate coords: 52.4558, 13.5250 How it works Placement mixes workshop days, site work, and seminar weeks, often with Jugendbauhütte Brandenburg. Admission is through ijgd and DSD channels, not through Solarpunker. Why it matters A capital-city hut keeps urban craft skills alive where densification pressure is highest. Source & repost Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Jugendbauhütte Berlin · Bewerben. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Berlin Depot Schöneweide. Details checked: 2026-09-19.

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